Sailing the River Orwell & Testing Our New Dinghy | Ep.11

This episode is a bit of a mix, some sailing, eating, dinghy trips and exploring! You also don't get to see me service our engine! 😳 It was the first time we had left the boat unattended on anchor! This was a little un nerving and the walk we went on was down the beach at the side of the river keeping an eye on her the whole time 😂. We went to a 'boat jumble' in Ipswich which was the first we have been to and it was rather good. Quite a few bargains to be had and if you need some bits they are a great place to go. Lots of second (and possibly third and fourth) hand items and new stuff also. Lines and fenders galore! I also serviced our engine for the first time (and my first time). We considered filming it but as I needed to concentrate and genuinely swore so much it was not going to be a great edit! it went relatively well on the whole but learned some tricks, like the oil pumping that should have taken 7-10 pumps to bring the oil out through the dipstick... after 1 hour of pumping we realised that the engine wasn't hot enough and then it came straight out! Oil filter came off well, fuel filter was tricky but came off.. belts simple,. impeller easy... then the bl@0dY Racor fuel/ water separator! this took hours. I tried everything and I am quite strong! It got to the point where I was almost ripping the filter and fibreglass mount out of the wall so I ended up taking the pipes off and unscrewing the whole thing. We were the talk of our pontoon and many neighbours were involved trying to help. I then finally decided to put a screw through it and tried.. had a neighbour holding it down one end and I turned the screwdriver. It ripped a 2 inch slit through the metal and still wouldn't budge. One last try before the multi tool came out... it shifted! finally.. so the job that I thought would take half a day - day max ended up taking 2 days! I hope you enjoy and as always thanks for watching! Carl and Charlie x